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Nothing beats being a union member, but if you are looking for particular guidance on a workplace issue have a look at our workplace guidance.

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Are you a union rep looking for help and advice to support your colleagues at work? Take a look at our wide range of resources.

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Tackling and preventing sexual harassment

To effectively challenge sexual harassment, we must challenge the cultures that enable it through practical and proactive action.

Tackling and preventing sexual harassment

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TUC Summer Patrol

Summer Patrol finds us canvassing businesses in city centres, asking to speak to young workers on zero hour contracts and shift work about their rights and work conditions.

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Sign up to the TUC regional young activists network

Are you a young trade member? Do you want to learn, campaign and organise with other young members in your area? Join our young workers networks here.

If we're going to change the world of work for the better - we need young people to get repping

Reps and activists are the backbone of the union movement. They recruit workers to the union, win new workplace policies, represent members and organise for industrial action. Without them, we are all worse off. This Young Workers Month, Alice Arkwright spoke to young reps across the movement on what it’s like and why others should get involved.

Alice Arkwright

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Organising young workers

Young members are our present and our future. These resources tell the stories of young workers, why they joined and what they’re doing in their workplaces.

Jobs and recovery monitor - BME Workers 2023

BME workers face systemic disadvantage and discrimination in the labour market, whether it be lower employment rates and higher unemployment rates, lower pay, more insecure work, or occupational segregation.

New TUC poll: 2 in 3 young women have experienced sexual harassment, bullying or verbal abuse at work

New TUC poll finds most young women experience harassment at work

TUC: Under 21s face £2.5 billion minimum wage “pay penalty” for being young workers

The TUC has today (Friday) published new analysis which reveals 900,000 under-21s across the UK are currently being left “massively out of pocket” due to being paid a lower rate of the minimum wage.

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Young Workers Month

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Young Workers

2 in 5 BME workers experience racism at work – new TUC report

Ground-breaking new TUC research finds hundreds of thousands of BME workers face racist behaviour – from “banter” and jokes, through to bullying and harassment

Raising pay for everyone

Our approach is designed to deliver a return to normal wage growth, and an end to the longest pay squeeze in modern history. Underpinned by a plan to raise the minimum wage to £15 an hour so that no workers are left behind.

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